Hamilton v. Rock’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The jury is instructed in all cases of tenancy upon agricultural land where the tenant has held over and retained possession for more than 60 days after the expiration of his term without any demand of possession or notice to quit by his landlord or the successor in interest of his landlord, if any there be, he shall be deemed to be holding by permission of the landlord, or the successor in interest of his landlord, and shall be entitled to hold under the terms of the lease for another full year and shall not be guilty of an unlawful detainer during said year, and such holding over for the period aforesaid shall be taken and construed as a consent on the part of a tenant to hold for another year.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Kenfield v. Curry

2. ““No particular words, technical or otherwise, or form of expression in an instrument are necessary to constitute it a lease. Any language by which the possession and enjoyment of land is granted for a specified time at a stupulated rental creates a tenancy, and is in effect a lease. * * *””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. District Court of the Thirteenth Judicial District

3. “[i]n the future if you wish to rent or buy the place, you have to see ... my agent.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Rasmussen v. Lee